The best lessons I've learned underline the fact that there's less of a relationship between technical know-how and increasing wealth than you might expect — and that managing your behavior is really the first step to successfully managing your money.

While social media alleges to serve a function for us to share our normal lives and increase our connections, what it really does is pressure us into a constant, never-ceasing performance. Maybe there’s a different way to do things.

The second I tried to imagine what that would feel like, however, if I ran into The Person I Could Have Been, a very different vision materialized. I didn’t see some idealized version of myself, but the exact opposite. I saw the me I could have become had an infinite number of little moments throughout my life not turned out in my favor.

I was always a good saver - until I realized saving alone wasn't going to be enough to build significant wealth or reach financial independence.

There’s a balance to maintain between enjoying your life right now and ensuring that you’ve planned appropriately for the future. It doesn’t have to be extreme; this isn’t about choosing between FIRE or YOLO.

Speak up. Ask questions. And act. We cannot sit complacent or silent as people are killed at the hands of law enforcement officials who were sworn to protect and serve.

You wouldn’t expect to pick up an instrument and play it (let alone play it well) without practice. Why would you expect anything else that you want to be “good” at to be any different?

I have found the power of stepping off into the unknown, where there are no promises but there are endless possibilities.

Despite the fact we might only be able to see the nearest trees, there is a whole forest out there. It didn’t disappear just because things got hard or weird or scary or uncertain.

Discussions on best ways to grow wealth or improve your personal finances — whether you want to reach financial freedom or have other goals in mind — would be a lot more effective if we stopped making “a high savings rate” mean the same thing as “a good person.”

I’ve been a member of the Boston location for a few months now, and I’ve gathered enough info and insights to put together an honest review of The Wing that might help other women interested in using the space for coworking.

A good question to ask yourself if you want to start using your money as an effective tool that allows you to build the life you want is this one: “How can I get the highest and best use of the resources I have to align the life I live with what I value?”

Here are some of the routines and rituals I rely on to provide the structure needed to make the most of my year-end planning time.

Tomorrow is my 30th birthday. That’s a big milestone and for most of the year, I wondered what I should do to commemorate or celebrate it.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a house or a car or a piece of clothing or a better body or a smartphone or a TV or a KitchenAid stand mixer, the default of human thinking around how to improve life seems to be “when I get ___, I will be ___.” But that formula never adds up.

It took me until my mid-20s to realize what a close relationship I had with fear — and to understand how toxic and limiting it was.

I am sharing one way of doing or thinking about things. Not the only way; not even the “right” way. Just a way.

When you can see online negativity for what it is — the suffering of someone who has absolutely no other way to cope with their misery — it becomes a little easier to take a step back instead of engaging.

You can apply a pattern interrupt in any area of your life in which you wish to spark change — or to simply increase awareness of your own behaviors and habits. In my case, I’m motivated by the awareness piece: I want to practice mindfulness with my money, so I’m setting myself this experiment and giving myself a chance to play around to see what comes up.

Each month, I’m creating a BYH Content Roundup that features those latest pieces of content that I published under our BYH brand, either as articles and posts or most recent episodes of our podcast, Beyond Finances, that I co-host and produce.